EP0179215A2 - Verfahren zur Prüfung der Rechtschreibung eines gesetzten Wortes - Google Patents

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EP0179215A2
EP0179215A2 EP85110142A EP85110142A EP0179215A2 EP 0179215 A2 EP0179215 A2 EP 0179215A2 EP 85110142 A EP85110142 A EP 85110142A EP 85110142 A EP85110142 A EP 85110142A EP 0179215 A2 EP0179215 A2 EP 0179215A2
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  • This invention relates to spelling verification in general, and more particularly to spelling verification of compound words by reference to a data base which does not include all verifiable compounds.
  • the parser in attempting to verify the word "hotspot” as a correctly spelled word, the parser would find the "ts” break point, break the word in to "hot” and “spot” and would then find both of these parts in the dictionary. The word would then be judged correctly spelled, and on this basis could also be hyphenated between the constituents, e.g. - "hot-spot".
  • a further flaw in a break point parsing technique is that not all misspelled words will be correctly identified as such because compounds composed of two unrelated but correctly spelled words which may be parsed into two correct words are verified as correctly spelled words. For example, a misspelling of "overtime” as "evertime” would not be caught by a break point parser, since "ever” and “time” are both correctly spelled words. Likewise, run-on words such as "suchas” will be verified as “correct” compounds. This is a particularly serious drawback, since the user trusts that the system will find these types of typographical errors and mis- spellings. This particular problem relates to the detection of errors. For the purposes of this application, an error is defined as a misspelling which is not caught by the system, and therefore, verified as a correct spelling.
  • false alarms are defined as correctly spelled words which are not recognized by the spelling checker and are, therefore, flagged as misspelled words.
  • the break point parsing technique described above sometimes becomes "confused" when several letters in the first part of a compound look like another good word. If the remainder of the compound cannot be found and the parsing algorithm does not successfully recover, a perfectly good word may be marked as misspelled, even though its constituents are in the dictionary.
  • a further limitation of the break point parsing technique described above involves hyphenation errors. If the parser is contributing information to an automatic hyphenation program, correctly spelled words may suffer from mishyphenation on the basis of break points when the wrong pair of words is identified as the constituents of the compound. For example, “snakeskin” might be incorrectly parsed as “snakes-kin”, or “pantscuff” might be incorrectly parsed as “pant-scuff”. This turns the word to apparent nonsense for a reader who tries to reconstruct it on the basis of its supposed hyphenation at the compound joint.
  • substring refers to an initial substring, meaning a sequence of text characters beginning with the first character of the input word and ending prior to the end of the input word.
  • the remainder of the input word, beginning with the next character beyond the last character of the longest matching substring, is then compared with the dictionary. If it is not in the dictionary, the system recalls the next-longest substring and the remainder of the input word beyond this next-longest substring is tested for a match with the dictionary words.
  • the novel parsing technique of this invention is applicable to any of the languages which form new vocabulary items by combining shorter words in a rule-governed manner by including a measure of artificial intelligence to enable the parsing system to distinguish whether two supposed, correctly spelled compound constituents are positionally compatible, or whether they are one of the spurious cases described above in which two words, otherwise correctly spelled, are improperly combined into a compound (e.g., "throughchair").
  • This artificial intelligence is added to the system by use of flags stored with the words in the dictionary data base which indicate the manner in which the word may participate in compounding, if at all.
  • the parser breaks a candidate word into two correctly spelled constituent words, their compounding features are examined to determine whether they form an acceptable combination. If the features do not match, the word is marked as a misspelling, even though both parts were found in the dictionary.
  • a block diagram is shown of the data flow of the compound word spelling verification technique of this invention.
  • This invention is used with a Text Editor 1 which may, for example, be an IBM Personal Computer running an IBM DisplayWrite 2 program to enable the IBM Personal Computer to perform a variety of word processing tasks and applications.
  • a popular one of these word processing applications is "Spelling Tasks" which can be used to verify the spelling of words in a document.
  • the words in a document are compared with the contents of a stored dictionary data base so that words can be highlighted which do not appear to be correctly spelled.
  • many proper names and some other words are not ordinarily found in the dictionary, but one important operational goal is to have the system highlight as few correctly spelled words as possible.
  • the text editor program sends individual words to be verified to the Compound Parsing Algorithm 2.
  • the word sent from the Text Editor 1 to the Compound Parsing Algorithm 2 for verification is conveyed along the Word or Substring line to the Word Decode Algorithm 3 for comparison with words stored in Dictionary 4.
  • a logical point in the dictionary will be chosen to begin comparisons of the Dictionary 4 words with the word to be verified, as will be understood by those skilled in the art. For example, rather than starting at the beginning of the dictionary for each verification operation, the comparison process in the Dictionary 4 would begin with the words stored therein which begin with the same letter as the word to be verified.
  • the Word Decode Algorithm 3 conveys each of the substrings which match to the Compound Parsing Algorithm 2.
  • the remainder of the word following the longest substring is then conveyed back to the Word Decode Algorithm 3 for comparing to the words in Dictionary 4.
  • "cuff” is sent back to the Word Decode Algorithm for comparison with the words in Dictionary 4.
  • the words in the Dictionary 4 beginning with c are accessed to determine if a comparison exists between the "remainder" substring in the word to be verified and the words in Dictionary 4.
  • "cuff” will be found in the Dictionary 4 and this fact will be conveyed along the Substring Match line from Word Decode Algorithm 3 to the Compounding Parsing Algorithm 4.
  • a Shadow Table 5 stores data associated with each of the words in Dictionary 4. Although this Shadow Table 5 is shown in
  • Shadow Table 5 can exist as a partitioned area of the memory which stores Dictionary 4.
  • the information stored in Shadow Table 5 can, instead of being stored separately, be stored along with the words in Dictionary 4.
  • This information stored relative to the words in Dictionary 4 denotes the suitability for and circumstances under which the words in Dictionary 4 may be compounded, if compounding is allowable at all.
  • the information relative thereto in the Shadow Table 5 may have indicated that "pants” could occur alone or in the front portion of a compound while the information in Shadow Table 5 relative to "cuff” may have indicated that it could occur alone or in the last portion of a compound.
  • the Compound Parsing Algorithm 2 cannot verify this combination of substrings as a compound word.
  • the remainder of the word following the next longest substring is compared with the words in Dictionary 4.
  • the next longest substring is "snake” so the remainder following this next longest substring is "skin". This is found in Dictionary 4 and the Shadow Table 5 information relative to "skin" indicates that it may be used alone, at the front, or at the end of a compound word.
  • the Compound Parsing Algorithm 2 can then verify "snakeskin" to the Text Editor 1 as a correctly spelled word.
  • the detailed flow chart of the compound word spelling verification technique of this invention is shown in Fig. 2.
  • the first step of this technique is to get a text word for verification as indicated at 10. Assume now that verification is being attempted for the compound word "overtime”.
  • the flow chart of Fig. 2 has two major loops: A "look-up" loop and a “compound parsing" loop. Considering first the look-up loop, this loop compares dictionary entries to the input word. Dictionary entries which are substrings of the input word are "remembered” in a list. Before entering the look-up loop, a flag "matched", indicated at block 11, indicates whether the text word matches a dictionary entry. The "matched" flag is set to false to indicate that the text word has not yet been found in the dictionary. Next, the first relevant dictionary entry from the dictionary is accessed at 12. The first relevant word might be, for example, the first word in the dictionary beginning with the same alphabetic letter as the text word to be verified.
  • the first relevant word to be accessed might be the first word beginning with the first three letters of the text word to be verified.
  • the flag "end of dict" (end of dictionary) is set equal to true, instead. For example, if the first three letters of the input word are used to determine a relevant portion of the dictionary, the "end of dict" flag would be set when no more words with the same first three letters could be found in the dictionary.
  • the dictionary word most recently accessed is compared with the text word. If they are the same, and the input word is suitable for standing alone (as will be described below in detail), the "matched" flag is set to true and this dictionary word is saved as indicated at 15.
  • this first dictionary word accessed is not the text word to be verified
  • the operation proceeds to 16 where a test is performed to determine if the dictionary word is a substring of the text word. If so, the dictionary word is saved in a list of substrings of the text word, as indicated at 17. Also saved at 17 along with the substring is the "compound class" from the shadow table which indicates the suitability for compounding and the position in a compound word (if the substring is suitable) that the substring can take. As noted above relative to Fig.
  • this shadow table information can be encoded in a minimum number of bits, as will be understood by those skilled in the art, to denote that the dictionary word can be used: (a) alone only and, therefore, not compoundable, (b) alone or as the front or middle of a compound word, (c) alone or anywhere in a compound word, (d) alone or as the back of a compound word, (e) only as the beginning or middle of a compound word, or (f) only as the back of a compound word.
  • the words “over” and “overt” are saved in the substring list.
  • the look-up loop would eventually be exited out of block 13 as a result of reaching the end of the relevant portion of the dictionary.
  • the program exits this look-up loop there is a list of substrings which entries may be the first component in a compound word.
  • the word is presumed to be correctly spelled and no further processing takes place.
  • the word is considered to be misspelled.
  • the compound parsing loop is entered because there was no match but there is a list of possible compound components.
  • the compound parsing loop looks at the list of possible components, also referred to as first elements, and attempts to find another dictionary entry such that the two may be joined to form the input text word. Accordingly, at 19 if the pair of conditions: "matched" equals false and substrings in the list, do not both exist, the operation proceeds to block 20. If "matched” equals true, the word is considered verified, whereas if "matched” equals false, the word is considered misspelled because, in this case, there are no substrings in the list from which to continue attempting verification.
  • the operation proceeds to 21 wherein the longest substring from the list is accessed and deleted from the list.
  • the longest substring is "overt”.
  • the remainder or second element of the word "overtime” is then processed at 22 to be "ime”, based on the definition of the second element being the input text word "overtime” minus the just accessed longest substring "overt”.
  • another look-up loop indicated at 23, 24, and 25 is entered to determine if the remainder "ime" is in the dictionary.
  • This look-up loop consists of looking at all relevant dictionary stems and setting a flag at 25 if the remainder "ime” matches a dictionary word, and the suitability for compounding at the "remainder" position in the input word is appropriate, as indicated by the shadow table information stored with each dictionary word.
  • the input text word matches a word in the dictionary and it is suitable for compounding in this "remainder" portion of a compound word, the input text word is considered a correctly spelled compound word made up of two correctly spelled dictionary entries, suitable for compounding in the order appearing in the input text word.
  • the flag "matched” is set to true. The operation returns to block 19 and proceeds to 20 for "matched" equals true.
  • “Sun” is taken from “sunglasses” to give “glasses” as a candidate “remainder” or rear portion of the compound word.
  • “Glasses” will be found in the dictionary.. Since “sun” is known to be the front element of many compounds (sunlight, sunshine, sunspot, etc.) its compound class marker designates it as a word that may be used alone or at the front of a compound word. Since “glasses” is known to be the rear element of some compounds (e.g., spyglasses) its compound class marker designates it as a known rear compound portion. Since the compound class markers are compatible in well formed compounds, the word is considered to be correctly spelled and the matched flag would be set.
  • a program design language listing is shown below which also describes this compound word spelling verification technique of this invention. This listing parallels the operation described above relative to the flow chart of Fig. 2.

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